90W 9T215 doesn't charge E6400

That's right. So don't buy those P/N 9T215 generic replacements that claim to be Dell Latitude E6400 compatible. I tested original 9T215 on E6400s (not on purpose) and it just doesn't charge. BIOS says it's unknown adapter. Computer actually runs on A/C but battery doesn't get charged. Why? There must be love between the two for it to charge? It's enough to power the machine, it must be enough to juice up the battery. That's just annoying!

Crippled "Recovery Disc Creation" on HP Mini

HP Mini 210 is really a good netbook: attractive design, broad configuration options, and very capable offering of software, esp. for cloud and data management. However there's one thing that is quite annoying with it: the "Recovery Disc Creation".

It is cheap stingy for HP to not provide a factory recovery disc (Dell provides that by default). So HP includes this Recovery Manger program (by Cyberlink) for you create a set of restore discs. You'll quickly find the option is really a pain to use, because

• Very slow start. Will take more than 10 minutes for it to be ready to burn the first disc, prob. because it needs to decompress source files.
• Doesn't take RW discs. Only DVD+/-R is accepted. Why? Did the designer just get teleported from 2003?
• The long process will restart if disrupted. If unfortunately the program gets interrupted on the way (computer goes into sleep, for instance), you'll always have to restart the very long process from scratch. No resume option at all.

The annoying program is probably not going to be a deal-breaker, but definitely bad enough for me to write this post to vent... :)